Our Pedigree
Amber Kinetics is the industry-leader in manufacturing flywheel energy storage systems (FESS). As the only provider of long-duration flywheel energy storage, Amber Kinetics extends the duration and efficiency of flywheels from minutes to hours—resulting in safe, economical and reliable energy storage.
Years
Unsurpassed experience designing and deploying the world’s first long-duration flywheel energy storage systems
Hours
Cumulative flywheel runtime hours around the world
GWh
Over 1.5 GWh discharged
Our History
2009
Amber Kinetics founded by Dr. Seth Sanders and Ed Chiao
2010
Awarded $3.6 Million DOE Grant
2012
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Engineered 5kWh long-duration FESS prototype
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Awarded CEC grant of $1.8 Million
2013
Successful completion of Series A funding
2014
Commercial installation of 25kWh long-durational FESS system Alameda, CA
2015
Amber signs agreement with Elemental Excelerator, based in Honolulu, HI
2016
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Amber signs supply agreements with HECO, Emerging Power, and EEI
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Amber completes Series B round; awarded second $2.0 Million CEC Grant
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Amber deploys two FESS units with customers in the Philippines
2017
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First commercial supply agreements with multiple global customers
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Two year cooperation agreement with Enel
2018
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Successful completion of Series C round of funding
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Flywheel fleet reaches 50,000+ hours of cumulative field of operations globally
2019
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Manufacturing ramp up of flywheel production at Amber Kinetics the Philippines
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Created world’s first flywheel innovation hub in the Philippines
2020
Amber Kinetics signs 1st commercial supply agreement with customer in Australia
2021
3 projects operational in Australia
2022
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1st project operational in Japan
2023
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MOU with Philippine-Japan Consortium to develop integrated solutions
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Flywheel fleet reaches over 1M hours of cumulative field of operations globally